Although I stopped playing up to chapter 8 at the time Torna released, I only restarted my file a few months before Pyra released. So I’m actually now back to where I am and holy crap, am I loving the experience again.
Pretty sure you can’t actually send him into the hole. If you could there would be video evidence by now and it would definitely be a meme in the community.
Zeke: "Why does Anyone Kill others?" Zeke: "Because they're in your way, or because you can't bear the sight of em' Zeke: "You Kill because you're weak" Zeke: "But I'm not Weak. So I don't need to kill anyone" Zeke: "And I don't mean Physically, yeah?" Zeke: "I mean in here" -epic man touches his heart- Amalthus: "I suppose...that makes me weak then." Amalthus: "But that weakness is why I'm standing here today." Zeke: "So you hate them, Humans." Amalthus: "No..." Amalthus: "I hate this world..."
I forgot how terrible the dialogue is in this game. He just called every soldier in the military weak. Whoever wrote this dialogue is a disrespectful immature child that doesn't understand the world.
yes, but if he hadn't done that, there would have been no game. that and he wouldn't have gotten Haze's core crystal, making the battle at the world tree much less awesome
You ask me, this guy was the true villain of XC2. He's the reason everything happens - his destructive intent passed to Malos, he led the Indoline army against the remnants of Torna - causing Lora's death, which led to Jin's fall from grace, he hunts down Flesh Eaters because they dare to defy Indol's boot, he completely ruined the country of Tantal through blackmail, This a man who was dragged into the darkness through witnessing the evils of the world, and his truest desire is to take the rest of the world with him into the fiery depths of hell. He is the thematic antithesis to Rex, who is someone who, in the story, comes into contact with the world's evils - and yet he still presses on to save it. Despite the liars, cheaters, and dirtbags. Despite the fact that jerks can and have prospered. He stares into the eyes of mass murderers and still thinks that there is something left. Some remaining light worth saving. This is a direct clash of "Despair" versus "Hope." This clash of ideals is perfectly illustrated in game. After defeating Amalthus in combat, he opts to crush the World Tree, to bring it down on everyone. Yet - Rex's ideals, his beliefs that, no matter how dark the world gets, there's still light, still win out. Jin - a murderer, a liar, the very man who stabs Rex at the beginning of the game, someone Amalthus has dragged into the darkest pits of despair, someone *wanting* the destruction of the world - Rex reached out to him. Half the reason he fights Amalthus is to protect Jin. And guess what? Jin proves that Rex was correct! Someone smothered in darkness still had light within him. Light that was then used to purge Amalthus from the world, even at the grave cost of Jin's own life. Amalthus was wrong. A Malos-piloted Aion may be the "actual" final boss, but Amalthus is the thematic one. Aion is merely the final test - Rex's final affirmation of his desire to save the world, despite Elysium's destroyed state.
Beautiful comment, perfectly describes the themes of Existentialism in this game better than I ever could. The same theme in where Rex is trying to find (and does by the end with his statement towards Malos during the mid final battle cutscene) "his purpose in this world". Those types of words are used by both Rex and Malos quite a bit during the last 4 chapters. Also 69 Likes, nice
Rex became a true admirable protagonist, because he no longer had mere innocent and ignorant optimism. Rex became an optimist that advocates for always trying, for not giving up despite the darkness in the world, there can always be work that can be done to set things right all that is needed is people who believe it. Rex even tells this to Jin while fighting, that even when he (Rex) is gone someone will follow the example, carry on his will, also advocating that is EXACTLY the reason why he believes Blades are immortal.
To be fair, he is a compulsive liar so this isn’t anything unusual. He’s like “let’s fix the issue of dying titans “ when he is the direct cause for the Titans slowly dying off
To me , this felt more of a final boss than the actual final boss did because I just love how you have to team up with your initial first enemy to take down a mastermind that’s been pulling the strings in the background and is responsible for literally everything that has happened
He is the reason everything is happening at all, he made Malos become corrupted with his desires to erase everything, but I'll take the Malos fight over this one, just because of the emotions I felt at that time. And well, Malos only continued Amalthus legacy to the very end, as he said in Torna dlc, he is a "Diligent Student"
I agree. Amalthus is a much better villain than Malos. Also this boss was harder than the final boss. I had trouble and I was several levels higher while Malos was cake.
Keep in mind that the reason Klaus hid from Amalthus when he came to Elysium was because he was freaked out that THAT fucked up of a person was coming to visit, with a world he had JUST gotten back on its feet hanging in the balance AND that such a warped being was a PRODUCT of said world. Really brings to mind that one Romero quote about God in Spy Kids 2
The worst part is that Amalthus probably reminded him of his other half Zanza, their dispositions and corrupt morals are horrifyingly similar; which must have just broken Klaus inside that even in his new world, awful people like Amalthus still remained and rose to power. Amalthus’ death probably didn’t even help, as for the short bit before Rex arrived, Amalthus’ last words that he always lived as Klaus wanted him to must’ve just been agonizing to mull over. Klaus in his mind must have felt like everything horrible that happened was his fault, and he’d sadly be right. He brought ruin to 3 different worlds, both directly and indirectly; He destroyed the original world because of his recklessness, his other half caused pain, suffering and death to countless because of their selfishness, and even in the new world he created to repent, his hesitation and fear of acting and interfering caused a horrible person to be able to effortlessly steal things with power that no one such as Amalthus should wield, allowing them to not only condemn his new world to a slow death, but that very same horrible person being able to basically rule it.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 malos wasn't wrong about Klaus's initial disposition. He had stopped caring, and gave into the world's fate that it would be destroyed no matter what he did. Though malos was spewing amalthous' own beliefs and thoughts, I think it was loosely based on Klaus's then current depressed outlook as well.
No, not really. Klaus tell you that he just saw himself in Amalthus and that's what scarred him. Amalthus was not a complete monster until after Malos came out of the Core Crystal as an avatar of Amalthus' own silent seething hatred after that. After that he just deluded himself into believing that his own feelings about the state of the world were justified by the fact that Malos was divine in nature. All the people Amalthus killed before trying to meet God were more morally bankrupt than him at the time aside from the baby but at that point he was over it and considered it as an act of marcy for a kid that had just lost both his parents before even being a year old. He even tried to help others by becoming a priest after murdering his mother's killer as a kid. The soldier he helped recover killing a whole family of innocent for no reason other than profit is what caused him to search for God and eventually find Malos.
Kinda wish Sakurai had simply titled this The Acting God, cause most everyone will deduce this is a battle theme...ah well, to be fair his design should be an early giveaway
I mean he’s also the driver of malos so that should also be a dead giveaway. If that wasn’t enough Rex literally says that talking to him was like talking to malos
I never got a chance to figure this out myself as one of my brothers causally told me the Indoline were the bad guys =/ Every time I met with Amalthus, I got terrified, waiting for him to pounce on me...
@@sailiealquadacil1284 In some ways, that can be better then not knowing. I think it was Hitchcock who described how, if you have a bomb go off suddenly in a scene, all the audience gets is a sudden shock. But if you show the audience the bomb under the table while the characters are talking, you can create a sense of dread and tension.
I love the entire segment of the end of C9. It really makes the final fight in chapter 10 feel more like you’re freeing Malos of his burden rather than trying to end him for his ambitions.
You’re also trying to end his ambitions, because he wanted to find a new reason for his destructive impulse, and that search led him to jin, and the two began fighting to make the other’s wish come true.
Yeah. The entire game felt like you were freeing the burdens of a 500 year old war. I loved that aspect. Thats why Rex and Pyras lines were "Its time to move on, for the future." As if to say that with Malos's death the world can finally start healing and moving forward from those events...we all know that Jin and the others found it too hard until the end...so it was up to us to let the souls rest! Love it!
Praetor Amalthus, a textbook example of dirty sympathy. When I learned his backstory , I was conflicted: yes, he did awful things, but it was because of the world's cruelty that took the comfort of a normal life away from him. He has his reasons, and they are understandable; but that doesn't forgive the atrocities he commited! He is a man who worsened the fate of an already dying world... because he himself lost all hope in it. Also, that battle theme is absolutely amazing
More media should accept that you can understand and sympathize with a villain without redeeming them or excusing their actions. It adds depth and complexity. Xenoblade is really good at this.
I really do appreciate that Xenoblade 2 went the extra mile to make sure we *got* Amalthus, but didn't waste a single second trying to make us forgive or even feel bad about his fate.
@MJTRadio the hell you saying? The game went out of its way to ensure that you at least feel sorry for his upbringing. His death was heart-wrenching and any normal human being would feel sad for him. If you don't feel it then you don't deserve any compassion
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 You can feel bad for his history and feel empathy toward him in his final moments, I’m not saying that. But unlike, say, Malos, the game is clear that Amalthus always had a choice and say in what he was doing. He was responsible for his own horrific actions, and for that reason, even if we, the player, empathize with where he came from, even someone as good hearted as Rex isn’t shedding any tears or painfully wondering what his alternate fate could have been. The game weeps for Malos and Jin and the rest of Torna, but it does not weep for Amalthus.
@@MJTRadio the party knew jin better and had been shown that he wasn't evil, just incredidibly sad and broken by the world. Amalthous wasn't given that time, nor did he show signs of being a decent person underneath. Zeke knew there was something more, but he wasn't blindly naive either. Even if there once was a better person, he couldn't let amalthous get away with what he's doing. That possibility was ruined long ago, by amalthous' own hand. Zeke recognizes he's done too much damage. Prince of tantal or not, amalthous needed to go; He didn't let amalthous saving his life get In the way of what needed to be done.
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 Just because he had a tragic past does not excuse all the horrible things he did. You can feel sorry for what he want through but that does not mean you should forgive all the horrible things he did. Freudian excuse is no excuse.
I hate when male characters have no drive of their own and some woman they love has to die to "make them" a character. As if men aren't enough in and of themselves to be what they are, hero or villain, without some tragic backstory that has someone else die. It's tiring. But watching Amalthus seize his destiny and refuse to be driven by just one tragedy made me cheer for him and also act in shock. In the end, his refusal to change, his fear that his hatred was his only driving force...that's what made him a villain. Everything else was just a young man trying to find answers and own his own destiny!! I can't wait for another man to exhibit such depth and complexity in more games!! This is my favorite game I think.
This song really is the final boss battle though if we think about it. Here is when Rex wins, not against a legend and destiny arc. That comes later. But here he wins against that darker side of humanity and suffering that Malos thought humans could not, or would not, triumph over. He proves Malos wrong before he ever confronts him sealing his fate and seizing his own triumph for his home and people. It's a stunning battle. The best of the game by far. The soundtrack was the foundation for it. I love this game so freaking much!
I died once, and that was due to me being an idiot and falling into the hole he made. I think you can fall, can’t fully remember, it been really long man.
Amalthus, the one who choose selfish self-loathing and lack of faith in salvation over everything. He’s evil, but sad and relatable. I can’t help but feel sorry for him
I liked Amalthus from the beginning actually. Of course there were secrets hidden somewhere in Indol, but his words seemed to be honest... A nicely written character. And who knows if the Pope went berserk as well if he were rejected by an actual manifestation of God. 😄
I agree with this. He's my favorite antagonist of the game, and to be honest, I was glad to at long last witness the moment when he took out the Torna members. When their backstories were at finally revealed, I felt little sympathy for them - especially Akhos and Jin. The personalities and actions of those two were just too dickish by comparison for me to care in the end.
Funnily enough, that last sentence is not true at all: in fact, he's the only person the Architect ever showed mercy to. The entire reason Amalthus kept seeking new ways to gain his approval was to ask him why his mother had to die, but as Klaus tells the party, it was just fate, and he doesn't intervene with life. The only time (besides from the ending of course) the Architect ever actually changed something that was not fate was when, right as Amalthus died, he finally felt bad for him and showed him the spirit of his mother
I knew he was suspicious from the moment I saw him. Well, despite being a shady bastard, he has an amazing theme. Mayhaps even better than the actual final boss theme.
Makes sense considering Takahashi was directing this game. I mean, all the way back in Xenogears, in the church organization (Ethos), there was a bunch of dickheads made as a front by another organization in the shadows to control people. Xenoblade 1, there's the whole "live a world without gods" thing by Meyneth. Xenoblade X, there's this sidequest chain where you discover one of the xeno's god may not even be real. The Xeno series in general tend to have this stuff in their games.
+Bob I think it's highly overused tbh. the only reason to suspect Amalthus of being a dickhead is BECAUSE he's a religious figure in a JRPG, there was no real surprise to it.
They gave the masterpiece score to the under exposed but ultimate villain. I LOVE it! Amalthus and his hubris, self-loathing, hatred, fear, and desperation as his last version of hope were terrifying and tragic to fight. This is one boss I was stunned I killed the first go. And Jin exiting the stage with him was beautiful. An absolute masterstroke. It didn't hold the same punch as the final in game scene, and not quite the tragedy of Mik's story...But it was more nuanced and beautifully told. I was so exhausted but couldn't stop playing!! Only one other moment stole my breath away more than this one...when Malos screams that life isn't a gift and if it's all made, then his power is what he was made for so to see who wins in the end. And that final scene...when Rex and party notice the control room is a dock...didn't Males and his power win the day in a way? Thank goodness for the after credits scene!
Listening to "Past from Far Distance" many times sprinkled throughout the whole game really prepares _your body_ to receive this track, and it makes it all the more impactful. Hits you much harder
Seeing how heads of religious institutions have an unmistaken tendency to turn out to be evil, I kind of saw this one coming. Didn't take away too much from the epicness of the battle though.
This, out of the final 3 boss fights of the game, was by far the easiest for me, I beat Jin on my 2nd try, Amalthus on my 1st, and Aion on my, I think, 23rd.
@@ianlodge3318 Ironically, I can say this from being an Christian, even Christ himself warn us don't blindly trust anyone who comes in his name because there's many "false prophets" and "false shepards" (fake preachers) in the world, especially now. I can say with that, guys like Amalthus is a very good example of a false shepard. A supposed religious leader who use his power and authority to do so much heinous evil.
Because of Amalthus’s fear and Despair and Hatred from his Grief, it made the real villain of the story, Grief and Despair. Which is why Amalthus is just such a good villian
I keep hearing the chorus repeat a word pelastus, which is a Finnish word for redemption or salvation. Quite truly unfitting fact for someone who seeks to achieve the opposite. Yet it fits perfectly to the role Amalthus should've actually played.
Was doing a DnD campaign with my friends that took place in a version of ancient Greece, where Hades corrupted all the gods, and the players had to defeat them. This was the theme that I used for the gods. During the first of the god fights against poseidon, one of the players asked me why final boss music was playing for the first boss. I asked him why he had a problem with it. He mentioned that it sounded like gods boss theme. I pointed out that they were, in fact, fighting a god, so it was gods boss theme, and I then continued the fight
Unpopular opinion: Amalthus is the BEST Xenoblade antagonist. I mean it! this man is a total monster and his actions have harmed countless, but you can't help but feel a *slight* bit bad for his origins, but seeing him die by Jin and Rex's combined efforts is the greatest feeling the game gave me, finally putting an end to this vile man alongside the one he hurt the most. Malos might be the last enemy you fight, but the majority of the story comes to a close with Amalthus getting his well deserved defeat.
Amalthus came to his conclusion within understandable circumstances. Also, Rex didnt really have a good explanation for his answer. It was just "because I said so."
@@angrycinnabon2956 I mean if you saw the things amalthus saw and then went to ask God why, and all you found were weapons of mass destruction, wouldn't you come to that conclusion? Rex saw some bad things but not at that level. And the architect spoke to him. You can say amalthus is wrong, but Rex is talking out of his ass.
I like both, but for different reasons. The Torna version is more like Amalthus's presence lingers in Malos's actions, while this is dealing with the delusional maniac himself.
never have played this game, But Mother of God, this theme is on par with my favorites from the monster hunter and Souls series. its just that freaking good.
Indolence/Acedia, the deadly sin of sloth. Indifference to good things, turning your face away from what you know you can and should do, lack of care about the world and those who inhabit it, sinking into passiveness and self pity
Amalthus' version comes from himself Mythra's comes from an Artifice, which is outside. Also you totally can - if you have Nia and have reached that stage of the game
Mythra's Sacred Arrow comes from Siren, meaning she'd have to blow open whatever roof is over their heads to use it indoors. That means collateral damage and maybe bringing the building down on everyone. Even if Amalthus' Sacred Arrow wasn't self-generated, he literally survived Indol being disintegrated, so he probably isn't worried about surviving the consequences of it. That, and he also couldn't give two shits about causing collateral damage.
he is my favorite character, reminds me of krelian in xenogears, or wilhem in xenosaga, he is someone who is beyond the concepts of good and evil, a great antagonist.
He was just pure evil in Torna, yet you feel sympathy when you see his past and dies in the main game. He may be a bad man but he did some good things like saving Zeke's life.
Spot on. Honestly I love what they did with it. When I first heard it in the game I was like “I’ve heard this before” but it took a while until finally I got it and it felt like I got slapped in the head with a fish
Ok I see here that you are *checks list*... the head of a catholic esque religion in a jrpg. So I can schedule in your inevitable betrayal for next Tuesday, but we’ll have to push your boss fight where you adopt a different form to sometime early next month, does that work for you?
@@heavylobster4339 I think it's because Zanza is a bit more spoilery than Seven, there is still a twist after their introduction that allows for Zanza to be the final boss. Even then i think the title for Zanza the Divine could have been altered for Smash. On top of that The God-Slaying Sword is quite vague, as one of the titans could be the god, Egil could be *The Acting God* badumtiss, either way i think that it has to be more that they are at the end of the game rather than the titles themselves being a spoiler
Idk, the first time you meet Amalthus even Rex is like "something's up with this guy" so I wouldn't call it much of a spoiler. The real fun is in finding out just HOW evil he is and how deep his motivations lie
Late but to think it took just one boy to suffer to make countless more lives miserable in the future when that boy grew up and decided the whole world needed to suffer for its violent ways. Imagine how the bad choices of people in the present or past motivate people to become bad down the line… that’s a scary thought for sure.
@@kittyonikon3732 The Torna version is easily one of my favorite battle themes from the entire Xenoblade series, if not any video game ever. This one is cool, but the balance of chill but threatening from Torna makes it fantastic.
yeah I was wondering how the hell I would beat this guy with Thousand tentacles killing Rex right away post mid fight. And then he just falls down a hole with blowdown damn that was hilarious
Look at reality. Sakurai didn’t answer our prayers. Is that because we didn’t have enough faith? Even if we didn’t have faith, Rex did. Why did Rex have to be excluded? Is Sakurai dead? Is he just not there? Maybe Sakurai never existed to begin with! If Sakurai doesn’t exist in this world, then... I will put Rex in Smash, with my own hands!
@@ianritchie-smith475 White hair, check. Exact same smirk, check. Both killed their superiors, check... All we're really missing is an Amalthus/Malos fusion at the end, which a number of people were disappointed to not see.
The only god amalthus has in common with is zanza and what they have in common is that they fall to the heroes they have manipulated and tricked. Due to their own belief that they and they alone are the ones who decide the fate of the world. Although Shulk said that the fate of the world should be decided by those who have the will to make a choice and the power to seize one's own destiny
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The title is actually referring to Amalthus’ sick acting skills which have landed him multiple Emmys.
Everybody gangsta until the pope gets a mech
Suddenly I am reminded of Bishop Isaac Stone, from Xenogears.
Amalthus is basically him mixed with Krelian, with a touch of nihilism.
until the pope gets a *gear*
@@seafoam6119 I was little scared where those tentacles would have gone if they got a hold of mythra.
*until the pope BECOMES a mech
@@demonshade4120 Don't worry, that's what the internet is for.
To those of you coming from Smash, I suggest avoiding the comments
Agreed! ^^
I just beat the game two day ago, lucky me but man it was such a trip
INDEED
@@metsu4777 MYTHRA,malos is now my new favorite villain in all fiction just because of his voice and how cheesy his lines are
Although I stopped playing up to chapter 8 at the time Torna released, I only restarted my file a few months before Pyra released. So I’m actually now back to where I am and holy crap, am I loving the experience again.
>"you will never meet the architect"
>put Amalthus into the hole
Paulo Henrique Farias > using zeke with that upper cut punch
Someone send a video of this happening. I wanted to see that ever since I first fought him.
Pretty sure you can’t actually send him into the hole. If you could there would be video evidence by now and it would definitely be a meme in the community.
@@Terranhunter you can i did
musique 123 Put up video evidence then since none seems to exist
Zeke: "Why does Anyone Kill others?"
Zeke: "Because they're in your way, or because you can't bear the sight of em'
Zeke: "You Kill because you're weak"
Zeke: "But I'm not Weak. So I don't need to kill anyone"
Zeke: "And I don't mean Physically, yeah?"
Zeke: "I mean in here"
-epic man touches his heart-
Amalthus: "I suppose...that makes me weak then."
Amalthus: "But that weakness is why I'm standing here today."
Zeke: "So you hate them, Humans."
Amalthus: "No..."
Amalthus: "I hate this world..."
Genuinely one of Zeke’s best scenes
Based Zeke
I forgot how terrible the dialogue is in this game. He just called every soldier in the military weak. Whoever wrote this dialogue is a disrespectful immature child that doesn't understand the world.
By killing Lora, Amalthus unwittingly gave birth to the one person who could destroy him, Jin.
Whoa
yes, but if he hadn't done that, there would have been no game. that and he wouldn't have gotten Haze's core crystal, making the battle at the world tree much less awesome
i....never thought of this holy shit
Amalthus is responsible for literally every bad thing that happens over the course of Xenoblade 2 and Torna
KinglyRed
Yes, he’s Zanza, but slightly more humanized.
1 local man ruins everything
1 local Florida man*
@John Bulger 1 local florida man and his followers ruins everything we’ve done and his culmination of years of cleansing*
@@metsu4777 Special Praequistor Amorthag: "THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF YEARS OF CLEANSING!"
You ask me, this guy was the true villain of XC2. He's the reason everything happens - his destructive intent passed to Malos, he led the Indoline army against the remnants of Torna - causing Lora's death, which led to Jin's fall from grace, he hunts down Flesh Eaters because they dare to defy Indol's boot, he completely ruined the country of Tantal through blackmail,
This a man who was dragged into the darkness through witnessing the evils of the world, and his truest desire is to take the rest of the world with him into the fiery depths of hell.
He is the thematic antithesis to Rex, who is someone who, in the story, comes into contact with the world's evils - and yet he still presses on to save it. Despite the liars, cheaters, and dirtbags. Despite the fact that jerks can and have prospered. He stares into the eyes of mass murderers and still thinks that there is something left. Some remaining light worth saving.
This is a direct clash of "Despair" versus "Hope."
This clash of ideals is perfectly illustrated in game. After defeating Amalthus in combat, he opts to crush the World Tree, to bring it down on everyone. Yet - Rex's ideals, his beliefs that, no matter how dark the world gets, there's still light, still win out. Jin - a murderer, a liar, the very man who stabs Rex at the beginning of the game, someone Amalthus has dragged into the darkest pits of despair, someone *wanting* the destruction of the world - Rex reached out to him. Half the reason he fights Amalthus is to protect Jin.
And guess what? Jin proves that Rex was correct! Someone smothered in darkness still had light within him. Light that was then used to purge Amalthus from the world, even at the grave cost of Jin's own life. Amalthus was wrong.
A Malos-piloted Aion may be the "actual" final boss, but Amalthus is the thematic one. Aion is merely the final test - Rex's final affirmation of his desire to save the world, despite Elysium's destroyed state.
Beautiful comment, perfectly describes the themes of Existentialism in this game better than I ever could. The same theme in where Rex is trying to find (and does by the end with his statement towards Malos during the mid final battle cutscene) "his purpose in this world". Those types of words are used by both Rex and Malos quite a bit during the last 4 chapters.
Also 69 Likes, nice
He was the "Dr. Hojo" of Xenoblade 2. I found him cold and intimidating right from when he first was on screen.
Wow, i never thought about it that way
Rex became a true admirable protagonist, because he no longer had mere innocent and ignorant optimism. Rex became an optimist that advocates for always trying, for not giving up despite the darkness in the world, there can always be work that can be done to set things right all that is needed is people who believe it. Rex even tells this to Jin while fighting, that even when he (Rex) is gone someone will follow the example, carry on his will, also advocating that is EXACTLY the reason why he believes Blades are immortal.
Rex did declare that he and his friends will dispel the "500 year-long curse."
"Driver I may be, But I am no fighter"
- Amalthus despite consuming many core crystals from the cleansing.
To be fair, he is a compulsive liar so this isn’t anything unusual. He’s like “let’s fix the issue of dying titans “ when he is the direct cause for the Titans slowly dying off
As a wise man once said: “One song is worth a thousand tentacles”
That one fucking move slapped harder than the Torna/Battle!! theme.
t h o u s a n d t e n t a c l e s
Dunno, man, I kinda feel in an _E M P T Y M O M E N T_ here
OH MY GOD YOU ARE A GENIUS
_DIVINE ROBES_
To me , this felt more of a final boss than the actual final boss did because I just love how you have to team up with your initial first enemy to take down a mastermind that’s been pulling the strings in the background and is responsible for literally everything that has happened
Music is exactly like on final boss. And he is technically the true final villain.
AfterDespairAndHope and the whole Malos thing were kinda sad.
He's like the Local Man Ruins Everything meme personified.
He is the reason everything is happening at all, he made Malos become corrupted with his desires to erase everything, but I'll take the Malos fight over this one, just because of the emotions I felt at that time.
And well, Malos only continued Amalthus legacy to the very end, as he said in Torna dlc, he is a "Diligent Student"
So true. It was the perfect way for Jin to end, bringing the one who started everything down with him
I agree. Amalthus is a much better villain than Malos. Also this boss was harder than the final boss. I had trouble and I was several levels higher while Malos was cake.
Keep in mind that the reason Klaus hid from Amalthus when he came to Elysium was because he was freaked out that THAT fucked up of a person was coming to visit, with a world he had JUST gotten back on its feet hanging in the balance AND that such a warped being was a PRODUCT of said world. Really brings to mind that one Romero quote about God in Spy Kids 2
The worst part is that Amalthus probably reminded him of his other half Zanza, their dispositions and corrupt morals are horrifyingly similar; which must have just broken Klaus inside that even in his new world, awful people like Amalthus still remained and rose to power. Amalthus’ death probably didn’t even help, as for the short bit before Rex arrived, Amalthus’ last words that he always lived as Klaus wanted him to must’ve just been agonizing to mull over. Klaus in his mind must have felt like everything horrible that happened was his fault, and he’d sadly be right. He brought ruin to 3 different worlds, both directly and indirectly; He destroyed the original world because of his recklessness, his other half caused pain, suffering and death to countless because of their selfishness, and even in the new world he created to repent, his hesitation and fear of acting and interfering caused a horrible person to be able to effortlessly steal things with power that no one such as Amalthus should wield, allowing them to not only condemn his new world to a slow death, but that very same horrible person being able to basically rule it.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 malos wasn't wrong about Klaus's initial disposition. He had stopped caring, and gave into the world's fate that it would be destroyed no matter what he did. Though malos was spewing amalthous' own beliefs and thoughts, I think it was loosely based on Klaus's then current depressed outlook as well.
That was steve buscemi not Cesar romero.
No, not really. Klaus tell you that he just saw himself in Amalthus and that's what scarred him. Amalthus was not a complete monster until after Malos came out of the Core Crystal as an avatar of Amalthus' own silent seething hatred after that. After that he just deluded himself into believing that his own feelings about the state of the world were justified by the fact that Malos was divine in nature. All the people Amalthus killed before trying to meet God were more morally bankrupt than him at the time aside from the baby but at that point he was over it and considered it as an act of marcy for a kid that had just lost both his parents before even being a year old. He even tried to help others by becoming a priest after murdering his mother's killer as a kid. The soldier he helped recover killing a whole family of innocent for no reason other than profit is what caused him to search for God and eventually find Malos.
@@ghirahimlefabuleux8984 Apologies, I have yet to play Torna, so I'm missing some context here.
CONFIRMED FOR SMASH, SAKURAI DROPPING FAT SPOILERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PRESENTS
"oh boy here i go, casually mentioning pneuma twice"
@@bagelmeister2295 but one time the image was censored, so no spoilers at all!
Imagine seeing this in smash and thinking its the final boss track
@@funnynameforme4091 boy are they in for a treat then
@@funnynameforme4091 My friend thinks it is lmfao, He played xb1DE when it came out and I'm trying to get him to play xb2 now
Kinda wish Sakurai had simply titled this The Acting God, cause most everyone will deduce this is a battle theme...ah well, to be fair his design should be an early giveaway
I mean he’s also the driver of malos so that should also be a dead giveaway. If that wasn’t enough Rex literally says that talking to him was like talking to malos
I never got a chance to figure this out myself as one of my brothers causally told me the Indoline were the bad guys =/ Every time I met with Amalthus, I got terrified, waiting for him to pounce on me...
@@sailiealquadacil1284 In some ways, that can be better then not knowing. I think it was Hitchcock who described how, if you have a bomb go off suddenly in a scene, all the audience gets is a sudden shock. But if you show the audience the bomb under the table while the characters are talking, you can create a sense of dread and tension.
I mean, Ultimate had something of a habit of spoiling Xenoblade even before the DLC
@@sailiealquadacil1284 This was literally my experive with Alamathus, except I spoiled myself. Honestly I think it made the actual reveal hit harder
He was such a great character. His sadness and loneliness ended up turning him into that which he hated most at first.
You have become the very thing you have sworn to destroy !!!
Sounds like the Joker if you think about it. A few thugs ruined his life which caused him to go mentally insane.
Sounds like Joker.
He was kind of an asshole and the most obvious twist villain I’ve ever seen
@@failure4452 people should have known he was evil the moment that it was brought up that he was malos' driver
I love the entire segment of the end of C9. It really makes the final fight in chapter 10 feel more like you’re freeing Malos of his burden rather than trying to end him for his ambitions.
Love how in his final rant he lets slip how much he cared about Jin
You’re also trying to end his ambitions, because he wanted to find a new reason for his destructive impulse, and that search led him to jin, and the two began fighting to make the other’s wish come true.
That's beautiful dude...
well, you're trying to end him for Amalthus's ambitions. technically.
Yeah. The entire game felt like you were freeing the burdens of a 500 year old war. I loved that aspect.
Thats why Rex and Pyras lines were "Its time to move on, for the future." As if to say that with Malos's death the world can finally start healing and moving forward from those events...we all know that Jin and the others found it too hard until the end...so it was up to us to let the souls rest! Love it!
*YOUR DUTY*
*IS AS DUST IN THE WIND*
*COMPARED TO MY DESTINY!!!*
Says this, gets stabbed by dozens of icicles and frozen to death.
"That's cool bro"
- Jin
"Damn bro that's crazy but I don't reamber asking"
-Jin probably
Yeah... and now so are you
In case you're forgetting, I'm pretty sure Jin basically turns into dust along with Amalthus, so...
Praetor Amalthus, a textbook example of dirty sympathy. When I learned his backstory , I was conflicted: yes, he did awful things, but it was because of the world's cruelty that took the comfort of a normal life away from him. He has his reasons, and they are understandable; but that doesn't forgive the atrocities he commited! He is a man who worsened the fate of an already dying world... because he himself lost all hope in it.
Also, that battle theme is absolutely amazing
The men who feed the flames burning the world to ash are no better than the one who started it.
-Me
@@apollyonnoctis1291 Valid point. That's why he's a villain at the end of the day
@@apollyonnoctis1291 "This Kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new world order."
“He’s a b!tch and a bastard and he deserves to suffer”
-my brain last night when I finally got to him
More media should accept that you can understand and sympathize with a villain without redeeming them or excusing their actions. It adds depth and complexity.
Xenoblade is really good at this.
I really do appreciate that Xenoblade 2 went the extra mile to make sure we *got* Amalthus, but didn't waste a single second trying to make us forgive or even feel bad about his fate.
@MJTRadio the hell you saying? The game went out of its way to ensure that you at least feel sorry for his upbringing. His death was heart-wrenching and any normal human being would feel sad for him.
If you don't feel it then you don't deserve any compassion
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 You can feel bad for his history and feel empathy toward him in his final moments, I’m not saying that. But unlike, say, Malos, the game is clear that Amalthus always had a choice and say in what he was doing. He was responsible for his own horrific actions, and for that reason, even if we, the player, empathize with where he came from, even someone as good hearted as Rex isn’t shedding any tears or painfully wondering what his alternate fate could have been.
The game weeps for Malos and Jin and the rest of Torna, but it does not weep for Amalthus.
@@MJTRadio the party knew jin better and had been shown that he wasn't evil, just incredidibly sad and broken by the world. Amalthous wasn't given that time, nor did he show signs of being a decent person underneath. Zeke knew there was something more, but he wasn't blindly naive either. Even if there once was a better person, he couldn't let amalthous get away with what he's doing. That possibility was ruined long ago, by amalthous' own hand. Zeke recognizes he's done too much damage. Prince of tantal or not, amalthous needed to go; He didn't let amalthous saving his life get In the way of what needed to be done.
@@nonbinarygenderqueerhomosa8820 Just because he had a tragic past does not excuse all the horrible things he did. You can feel sorry for what he want through but that does not mean you should forgive all the horrible things he did. Freudian excuse is no excuse.
Out of all the songs to add to smash, I didn’t expect this one.
I was seriously expecting the trend of “songs with god in the name failing to make it in” to continue. Boy am I glad I was wrong.
@@thekalosian3098 I'm still sad that God Shattering Star isn't in Smash.
@@duskticket2933 that is the only fire emblem song I know and it absolutely slaps.
So yeah, I'm also sad.
well it's the best song in the game imo, so I won't complain since I'll be jammin the whole time
@@mr.mrowmusic8255 you
I like you
All this man had in the end was that he just really missed his mother....He too was just another victim of fate...
I hate when male characters have no drive of their own and some woman they love has to die to "make them" a character. As if men aren't enough in and of themselves to be what they are, hero or villain, without some tragic backstory that has someone else die. It's tiring. But watching Amalthus seize his destiny and refuse to be driven by just one tragedy made me cheer for him and also act in shock. In the end, his refusal to change, his fear that his hatred was his only driving force...that's what made him a villain. Everything else was just a young man trying to find answers and own his own destiny!! I can't wait for another man to exhibit such depth and complexity in more games!! This is my favorite game I think.
*cough cough Hello Neighbor cough cough*
The theme on my favorite golf minigame of all time.
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Sakurai: Doesn't include God-Shattering Star due to "major spoilers"
Also Sakurai: Includes this song
*bruh*
Sakurai is massive FE fanboy, of course he wasn’t going to spoil Three House AS MUCH
Xenoblade and any other franchise “It’s free real estate!”
@@Ozzy_08x bro he literally drops "Dimitri MIGHT go crazy and get a sick new eyepatch one day" in the middle of the Sakurai presents Byleth video
He also spoils Fiora being alive. He even describes everything that's going to happen to her in her trophy in Sm4sh.
I don't think there was ever a reason to not including God-Shattering Star.
@@Ozzy_08x tbf he kinda spoiled the Revelations route of Fire Emblem Fates on Corrin's reveal trailer
One of the most well written and thought out villains I’ve ever had the pleasure of being the adversary of.
I’ll remember you, Amalthus.
Agreed, this is one of the best "Nintendo Villains" I've seen in a long time, He lives rent free with Ghetsis in my head for RPG antagonists
The feeling of fighting a final boss only to realize the game is still not ending.
This song really is the final boss battle though if we think about it. Here is when Rex wins, not against a legend and destiny arc. That comes later. But here he wins against that darker side of humanity and suffering that Malos thought humans could not, or would not, triumph over. He proves Malos wrong before he ever confronts him sealing his fate and seizing his own triumph for his home and people.
It's a stunning battle. The best of the game by far. The soundtrack was the foundation for it. I love this game so freaking much!
I teared up when Amalthus died and he reached for his mother. He was awful, but i couldn't help feel bad for him in that moment.
God's Rage
Divine Robes
Sacred Arrow
Guilty Road
Thousand Tentacles
Reincarnation
Domination
Bad memories so many retries
I died once, and that was due to me being an idiot and falling into the hole he made. I think you can fall, can’t fully remember, it been really long man.
Jōjirō Takajō haha yes you can fall in fact he can too if you knock him in there
RafTheDude Sacred Arrow is Mythra’s level 4 special.
Was Amalthus copying her?
Amalthus, the one who choose selfish self-loathing and lack of faith in salvation over everything. He’s evil, but sad and relatable. I can’t help but feel sorry for him
“Latin Chanting” the song
Unbound Sky 9999 do you have the traduction ?
fun fact, the Praetorium's titles (eg. Praetor, Quaestor) are latin
Its actually English, listen carefully
@@stanthegreatman6592 huh? What do you hear?
@@stanthegreatman6592 I too would like to know
I liked Amalthus from the beginning actually. Of course there were secrets hidden somewhere in Indol, but his words seemed to be honest... A nicely written character. And who knows if the Pope went berserk as well if he were rejected by an actual manifestation of God. 😄
I agree with this. He's my favorite antagonist of the game, and to be honest, I was glad to at long last witness the moment when he took out the Torna members. When their backstories were at finally revealed, I felt little sympathy for them - especially Akhos and Jin. The personalities and actions of those two were just too dickish by comparison for me to care in the end.
@@AkujoFan he's just my favorite antagonist out of all the games I've played, with Jin close behind even though he's not always an antagonist
Funnily enough, that last sentence is not true at all: in fact, he's the only person the Architect ever showed mercy to. The entire reason Amalthus kept seeking new ways to gain his approval was to ask him why his mother had to die, but as Klaus tells the party, it was just fate, and he doesn't intervene with life. The only time (besides from the ending of course) the Architect ever actually changed something that was not fate was when, right as Amalthus died, he finally felt bad for him and showed him the spirit of his mother
I want so much this song for the Pyra/Mythra DLC. Just naming it Acting God, so it won't spoil newcomers!
IT GOT IN HOLY SHIT!
You got ur wish lol
It got in but it spoils the game regardless in smash
Why does it spoils? I just don’t understand why the title spoils although I actually played Xenoblade Chronicles 2
@@CoffeCat400 it spoils because even though he isn't the final boss or anything, it still shows you fight him at one point or another
by far the best main antagonist of any Xenoblade game
I can't agree more! I love this total monster as an antagonist so much.
This music: absolute banger.
My party: overleveled 20 levels above.
My Blades: Afinity charts complete.
Amalthus: killed him in one hit.
I knew he was suspicious from the moment I saw him. Well, despite being a shady bastard, he has an amazing theme. Mayhaps even better than the actual final boss theme.
This game really seemed to go heavy on the whole "don't trust religion" idea
Makes sense considering Takahashi was directing this game. I mean, all the way back in Xenogears, in the church organization (Ethos), there was a bunch of dickheads made as a front by another organization in the shadows to control people. Xenoblade 1, there's the whole "live a world without gods" thing by Meyneth. Xenoblade X, there's this sidequest chain where you discover one of the xeno's god may not even be real.
The Xeno series in general tend to have this stuff in their games.
Another game in that vein is Final Fantasy 10.
I'm not anti-religion in the slightest myself, but I love games with this theme.
+Bob I think it's highly overused tbh. the only reason to suspect Amalthus of being a dickhead is BECAUSE he's a religious figure in a JRPG, there was no real surprise to it.
Remember, “Praetor” coincidently rhymes with “Traitor”
HEY WAIT A FREAKING MINUTE-
Bruh... holy shit.
*holup*
Just a coincidence, my snigga.
Amalthus is what would happen if the pope lost faith in humanity.
The emotional moments in the scene after this fight were ruined by the fact that the way I finally beat him was by pushing him down a hole
When the road is guilty:
Underrated
@@awesomechris2840 Agreed
They gave the masterpiece score to the under exposed but ultimate villain. I LOVE it! Amalthus and his hubris, self-loathing, hatred, fear, and desperation as his last version of hope were terrifying and tragic to fight. This is one boss I was stunned I killed the first go. And Jin exiting the stage with him was beautiful. An absolute masterstroke. It didn't hold the same punch as the final in game scene, and not quite the tragedy of Mik's story...But it was more nuanced and beautifully told. I was so exhausted but couldn't stop playing!! Only one other moment stole my breath away more than this one...when Malos screams that life isn't a gift and if it's all made, then his power is what he was made for so to see who wins in the end. And that final scene...when Rex and party notice the control room is a dock...didn't Males and his power win the day in a way? Thank goodness for the after credits scene!
There you go - one without the sound effects. Brilliant.
I love how this could so easily be the final boss theme, since amalthus sort of was behind it all anyway
O Architect, is this truly the world you wished for?
This track is criminally underrated
*Guilty Road!*
I never really expected that they’d add this song into smash bros, but I’m not complaining, this theme is amazing!
"I don't get it, but I'm not complaining!"
But Jin’s Power didn’t make it in. Apparently Sephiroth’s ultimate power is more of a spoiler than the twist villain.
When your character artist used to draw pr0n and now you gotta fight a guy with tentacles for days:
“Ah shit, here we go again”
YOU WILL NEVER MEET THE ARCHITECT
@@slobertooth1358 For me he just fell in a hole...
YOUR DUTY IS A DUST IN THE WIND COMPARED TO MY DESTINY!!
Y̸͠ͅǑ̷̯U̸̟͆ ̸͈͠D̷͚͗Ǐ̷̧Ę̸̆ ̵̌͜H̷̺̉Ẽ̴̦R̵͙͊E̵̜̓!̶̯͆
Villains always have the best soundtracks
Who else do you fight then? 🤔
@@negativehalf5882, Monsters?
@@negativehalf5882 I wasn't referring to just battle themes, but overall, including overworld themes.
Listening to "Past from Far Distance" many times sprinkled throughout the whole game really prepares _your body_ to receive this track, and it makes it all the more impactful. Hits you much harder
“All blades will become a part of me!”
Seeing how heads of religious institutions have an unmistaken tendency to turn out to be evil, I kind of saw this one coming. Didn't take away too much from the epicness of the battle though.
Ever since the first game Monolith pretty much implying don’t trust religious people
Krellian.
This, out of the final 3 boss fights of the game, was by far the easiest for me, I beat Jin on my 2nd try, Amalthus on my 1st, and Aion on my, I think, 23rd.
Bravely Default
Xenogears
Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Symphonia (Best game ever BTW)
Shining Resonance
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
@@ianlodge3318 Ironically, I can say this from being an Christian, even Christ himself warn us don't blindly trust anyone who comes in his name because there's many "false prophets" and "false shepards" (fake preachers) in the world, especially now. I can say with that, guys like Amalthus is a very good example of a false shepard. A supposed religious leader who use his power and authority to do so much heinous evil.
Because of Amalthus’s fear and Despair and Hatred from his Grief, it made the real villain of the story, Grief and Despair. Which is why Amalthus is just such a good villian
This masterpiece is in smash guys holy shit
But not Power of Jin...... :(
@@gamefan6219 both Amazing BUT I dont think any of those two should be in Smash. They Just dont fit the Stage at all
@@yaman2503, Acting God is fast paced, but unfortunately Power of Jin isn’t. BUT WHY NO AFTER HOPE AND DESPAIR?! THAT’S SO GOOD!
Local priest ruins everything
I keep hearing the chorus repeat a word pelastus, which is a Finnish word for redemption or salvation. Quite truly unfitting fact for someone who seeks to achieve the opposite. Yet it fits perfectly to the role Amalthus should've actually played.
Was doing a DnD campaign with my friends that took place in a version of ancient Greece, where Hades corrupted all the gods, and the players had to defeat them. This was the theme that I used for the gods. During the first of the god fights against poseidon, one of the players asked me why final boss music was playing for the first boss. I asked him why he had a problem with it. He mentioned that it sounded like gods boss theme. I pointed out that they were, in fact, fighting a god, so it was gods boss theme, and I then continued the fight
Divine Robes!
10 second intangibility!
Well, not exactly intangibility, just 100% block rate.
@@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven That's the cue for switching to cannon and building up specials
The enemy’s element is now...
wind!
Like Haze.
@@maxrichards3881 I mean, does switching elements even matter when you're just building up orbs to Full Burst with Pneuma?
The Xeno series NEVER misses on the titles of battle themes
ALL BLADES WILL BECOME A PART OF ME!
Unpopular opinion: Amalthus is the BEST Xenoblade antagonist. I mean it! this man is a total monster and his actions have harmed countless, but you can't help but feel a *slight* bit bad for his origins, but seeing him die by Jin and Rex's combined efforts is the greatest feeling the game gave me, finally putting an end to this vile man alongside the one he hurt the most. Malos might be the last enemy you fight, but the majority of the story comes to a close with Amalthus getting his well deserved defeat.
Amalthus came to his conclusion within understandable circumstances. Also, Rex didnt really have a good explanation for his answer. It was just "because I said so."
@@jameskozy7254 Just because it's understandable doesn't mean it's justified... But I do respect what you say.
@@angrycinnabon2956 I mean if you saw the things amalthus saw and then went to ask God why, and all you found were weapons of mass destruction, wouldn't you come to that conclusion? Rex saw some bad things but not at that level. And the architect spoke to him. You can say amalthus is wrong, but Rex is talking out of his ass.
Am I the only one who prefers this to the torna version?
I like both, but for different reasons. The Torna version is more like Amalthus's presence lingers in Malos's actions, while this is dealing with the delusional maniac himself.
*laggy road!*
never have played this game, But Mother of God, this theme is on par with my favorites from the monster hunter and Souls series. its just that freaking good.
I recommend you this: DO NOT READ the comments, because there are HUGE SPOILERS for Xenoblade 2. Trust me.
Indolence/Acedia, the deadly sin of sloth. Indifference to good things, turning your face away from what you know you can and should do, lack of care about the world and those who inhabit it, sinking into passiveness and self pity
"Divine Robes"
"SACRED Arrow"
"Guilty Road"
has anyone EVER asked why amalthus can use sacred arrow indoors when we can't?? like cmon bro thats cheating
Amalthus' version comes from himself
Mythra's comes from an Artifice, which is outside.
Also you totally can - if you have Nia and have reached that stage of the game
Mythra's Sacred Arrow comes from Siren, meaning she'd have to blow open whatever roof is over their heads to use it indoors. That means collateral damage and maybe bringing the building down on everyone.
Even if Amalthus' Sacred Arrow wasn't self-generated, he literally survived Indol being disintegrated, so he probably isn't worried about surviving the consequences of it. That, and he also couldn't give two shits about causing collateral damage.
This isn't the same without "DIVINE R O B E S" at the start
He became the very thing he was trying to destroy. Ironic.. but tragic.
It’s so surreal looking back on the ost because the songs sound even better.
he is my favorite character, reminds me of krelian in xenogears, or wilhem in xenosaga, he is someone who is beyond the concepts of good and evil, a great antagonist.
I love to put this in Final Destination
Very glad this song got into smash, my favorite song in this game
There is a remix of The Acting God in Torna, The Golden Country.
The Golden Country puts so much into context. It's also a tremendously sad story that makes you hate Almalthus more.
Yes it does. Almalthus is responsible for awakening Malos and bringing destruction to the world.
@@mariosonic987pac-hero4 At first I liked Almalthus but no longer.
He was just pure evil in Torna, yet you feel sympathy when you see his past and dies in the main game. He may be a bad man but he did some good things like saving Zeke's life.
@@mariosonic987pac-hero4 That is true. He saved that baby too although that scene was suspicious.
I'm glad this was included in the smash dlc
Anyone else notice the direct reference to Jupiter's theme from “ The Planets”?
Spot on. Honestly I love what they did with it. When I first heard it in the game I was like “I’ve heard this before” but it took a while until finally I got it and it felt like I got slapped in the head with a fish
Ok I see here that you are *checks list*... the head of a catholic esque religion in a jrpg.
So I can schedule in your inevitable betrayal for next Tuesday, but we’ll have to push your boss fight where you adopt a different form to sometime early next month, does that work for you?
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I usually complain like hell about the Unnecessary Choir present in most video game music, but it WORKS here.
Best part, some of the Latin (specifically the beginning) is from Our Eternal Land, AKA Indol’s theme.
@@goroakechi6126 do you happen to know (some of) the lyrics to this song? I've been trying to figure this out for months
@@thegreydragonangel2836
Couldn’t find any. Looked myself earlier, sorry-
@@goroakechi6126
well hello there, mr delicious pancakes
THIS MADE IT INTO SMASH?!?!
This is in Smash, but it spoils who the actual villain is... I meant Xenoblade 2, not the first one.
So you're telling me that Sakurai spoiled the true nature of a character from Xenoblade game? Who could've seen this coming?
@@AdfasSSBM The real question is why didn't he put Zanza the Divine in the game if he doesn't care about spoilery titles.
@@heavylobster4339 I think it's because Zanza is a bit more spoilery than Seven, there is still a twist after their introduction that allows for Zanza to be the final boss. Even then i think the title for Zanza the Divine could have been altered for Smash. On top of that The God-Slaying Sword is quite vague, as one of the titans could be the god, Egil could be *The Acting God* badumtiss, either way i think that it has to be more that they are at the end of the game rather than the titles themselves being a spoiler
Idk, the first time you meet Amalthus even Rex is like "something's up with this guy" so I wouldn't call it much of a spoiler. The real fun is in finding out just HOW evil he is and how deep his motivations lie
Late but to think it took just one boy to suffer to make countless more lives miserable in the future when that boy grew up and decided the whole world needed to suffer for its violent ways. Imagine how the bad choices of people in the present or past motivate people to become bad down the line… that’s a scary thought for sure.
Do you come back after malos boss fight in torna~the golden country too? XD
It can't compare, as beautiful as it is. The Torna version is a masterpiece imo
@@kittyonikon3732 The Torna version is easily one of my favorite battle themes from the entire Xenoblade series, if not any video game ever. This one is cool, but the balance of chill but threatening from Torna makes it fantastic.
@@artx9567 I wholly agree! That's probably the best way to describe it.
Arvind Ravikumar
Makes perfect sense, as Aegis War Malos is just Amalthus, but more interesting and entertaining.
G U I L T Y R O A D
Praetor Amalthus is the one villain I will truly hate with every fiber of my being
Hope and the will to live (Lora and co./Rex and co.) versus despair and the wish for death (Amalthus/Jin and co.)
The 500 year-old curse, indeed.
Gee for a boss that can easily be exploited by knocking him back down through the hole he came from this song sure is dramatic
yeah I was wondering how the hell I would beat this guy with Thousand tentacles killing Rex right away post mid fight. And then he just falls down a hole with blowdown damn that was hilarious
I don't think that has chances to make it in Smash and the title could spoil many people but man, this is sooo great.
Well it got in
@@allingbrodniak8819 I'm very surprised but in the best possible way!
I called him simply, the tentacle priest.
Agradecido con la opción de repetir el video indefinidamente 🙏
Look at reality. Sakurai didn’t answer our prayers. Is that because we didn’t have enough faith?
Even if we didn’t have faith, Rex did.
Why did Rex have to be excluded?
Is Sakurai dead? Is he just not there?
Maybe Sakurai never existed to begin with!
If Sakurai doesn’t exist in this world, then... I will put Rex in Smash, with my own hands!
Bruh
Bruh, Pyra and Mythra got in. At least Rex is a mii costume.
@@catalyst539 That's the worst part. I hate Pyra and Mythra now.
@@shadestrider1033 what did they do 😭😭😭
@@zetsubou1223 for real they're one of many in the game suffering from depression and just want to die
This makes playing torna before chapter eight make sense
This is Much better than I remembered
Trypophobia is this boss's true weakness
This song sounds like a dark souls boss
So hyped that this song is in smash!
Somehow this guy reminds me of Zamasu
Divine figure who wants to destroy the world because people are flawed?
Checks Out
Krelian was the same way.
@@ianritchie-smith475 White hair, check. Exact same smirk, check. Both killed their superiors, check... All we're really missing is an Amalthus/Malos fusion at the end, which a number of people were disappointed to not see.
The only god amalthus has in common with is zanza and what they have in common is that they fall to the heroes they have manipulated and tricked. Due to their own belief that they and they alone are the ones who decide the fate of the world. Although Shulk said that the fate of the world should be decided by those who have the will to make a choice and the power to seize one's own destiny
This sounds straight up Dark Souls and I love it.
The Power Of Jin is slightly jealous
Really nice to know this song made it in Smash
I hope this will be in Smash
Welcome back
@@mikehopson1762 thank you Sakurai!!